attributive

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I make my bread deciding whether a word is an attributive noun or adjective, parsing adverbial uses over conjunctive uses, writing those delightfully boring usage notes in your dictionary.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2013

In the substantive verb there are two classes, of which only one is also common to attributive verbs.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

This last word should be reserved to designate more particularly the phenomena of objective or attributive conjugation common to idioms of the second form.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

It is, therefore, from the point of an attributive equality that we are enabled to say: They are two.

From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various